Campus Notables

Wendy Turner, history, anthropology, and philosophy, presented a paper, Avoiding the King's Hand: Self-Awareness of Inheritance and Mental Problems, at the Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Mich. where she also chaired a panel.

Hubert van Tuyll, history, anthropology, and philosophy, was the keynote speaker at the Netherlands Center for World War I Studies at Erasmus University in Rotterdam in May. His talk was entitled Een kanslove aanval? Belgie, de grens, en Versailles (A Doomed Attack? Belgium, the Border, and Versailles).

Jurgen Brauer, business administration, presented the paper Developing Peacemaking Institutions: An Economist's Approach at the Teaching Peace: Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts Curriculum conference at Bluffton College in Bluffton, Ohio, May 26-28. The event attracted more than 150 professors from more than 50 institutions.

Richard Capps, chemistry and physics, is currently in Elko, Nev., performing geologic field research. Dr. He will return to ASU in August.

Cathy Tugmon, biology, traveled to East Africa for 21 days on a faculty development seminar with the University System of Georgia. The group spent time in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zanzibar, touring primary and secondary schools as well as four universities, and meeting with a variety of government agencies such as the Kenya National Council of HIV/AIDS and the Commission of Higher Education.

William Nelson, library, was a panelist for the program Connecting Quality with Standards: Assessment Measures for the Academic Library, and he presented a workshop Overcoming Road Rage on the Highway to Assessment: Utilizing Standards to Advance Your Library's Mission at the Association of Christian Librarians (ACL) annual conference June 7, in Springfield, Mo. Also, he presented a workshop Academic Library Assessment: Practical Approaches for Creating a Continuous Assessment Environment at the Florida Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries June 25 in Orlando, Fla.

Campus Briefs

Wendy Turner, history, anthropology, and philosophy, will spend the summer in California, Massachusetts, and Great Britain researching and writing for her book, Insanity in Medieval England.

Dr. Turner was awarded a prestigious Mayer's Fellowship to perform research at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif. For qualified scholars, the Huntington is one of the largest and most complete research libraries in the United States in its fields of specialization. Collections include rare books and manuscripts principally in the areas of British and American history and literature, 15th century European books, history of science, maritime history, and Renaissance exploration and cartography. Altogether there are about five million items available for research.

After leaving California, she will travel to the Harvard Law Library in Boston, and then to London, where she will be a fellow at the British Academy, Great Britain's National Society for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Jurgen Brauer, business administration, spoke at an academic conference on June 8 to accompany the G8 Economic Summit being held on Sea Island, Ga. His speech, United States Military Expenditures, reviewed the country's military expenditures over the past few decades.

Dr. Brauer found that federal budget-based military expenditure data should be avoided when documenting spending, and the economically-relevant U.S. National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) should be used instead. Dr. Brauer's findings suggest that the news media and public pay unwarranted attention to U.S. Department of Defense budget numbers. In fact, for fiscal year 2003, the DOD calculated $390 billion in military expenditures, while the actual figure, according to NIPA, should be $520 billion.